Workshops and coaching

Agentic AI training and advisory

Four ways to build agentic AI capability: hands-on workshops for engineering, knowledge-work and data teams, plus vendor-neutral coaching for the leaders who sponsor them.

Effective Agentic Knowledge Work Workshop

This workshop teaches knowledge workers to wield general-purpose AI agents like Claude Cowork, Microsoft 365 Copilot / Copilot Cowork / Copilot Studio, ChatGPT Work, and Google Workspace Studio as reliable, everyday problem-solving tools. Participants will master the full knowledge-work agent lifecycle: task decomposition, context engineering, iterative delegation, output verification, and responsible rollout.

The curriculum is tool-agnostic by design. We teach principles that transfer across any agentic stack while providing hands-on experience with the leading platforms of 2026.

What Your Team Walks Away With

  • Decompose real work into tasks an agent can reliably finish, with clear success criteria

  • Engineer context: the right documents, examples, and constraints, in the right order

  • Build single-step and multi-step agents for research, documents, email, meetings, and processes

  • Verify agent output: source checking, citation tracing, and red-flag detection

  • Add human-in-the-loop checkpoints: approval gates, review steps, escalation triggers

  • Roll out responsibly: data handling, auditability, and governance that sticks

Who It Is For

  • Business Analysts & Strategy Teams: research, reporting, and competitive intelligence
  • Marketing & Communications: content workflows, campaign analysis, and stakeholder updates
  • Finance & Operations: reporting, variance analysis, process automation, and approvals
  • HR & People Teams: onboarding, policy Q&A, and internal communications
  • Legal & Compliance: document review, clause extraction, and regulatory scanning
  • Customer Success & Sales Ops: account research, status updates, and ticket triage

Agenda Highlights

Two onsite days, built on real tasks your team brought to the discovery sessions.

  • Before the onsite days: two 2-hour online discovery sessions collect real tasks from participants and align the curriculum to your approved tools and data policies
  • Day 1: the agentic knowledge work landscape, task decomposition and outcome definition, context engineering and prompting, and how to build reliable single-step and multi-step agents
  • Day 2: document, data and research agents, communication and meeting agents, process agents that span systems, and governance, security and scaling
  • Optional third day: a guided capstone where each participant takes a real task from their role through the complete loop
  • Every participant keeps: the starter kit (task-decomposition worksheet, prompt templates, governance brief) and 30 days of Slack access

Every engagement is tailored. The full session-by-session plan comes with the syllabus.

Delivery Format

Element Detail
Pre-Workshop Discovery 2 × 2-hour online sessions (scoping, customization, stakeholder alignment)
Format Onsite, instructor-led, hands-on
Duration 2 days (16 hours instruction + 4 hours guided lab)
Cohort Size 12–20 knowledge workers
Prerequisites None technical; bring 2–3 manual tasks you want to automate or accelerate
Deliverables Personal agentic playbook, 2–3 working workflows, verification checklist, governance brief
Post-Workshop 30-day Slack access; office hours; prompt templates and case-study library

Packages

Package Includes
Core 2-Day Workshop 2 × 2-hr discovery sessions + prep + customization + 2-day onsite + materials + 30-day support
Core + Capstone Day Above + guided build of production-ready agentic workflows on your stack
Multi-Cohort Bundle 3 workshops within 12 months (mix workshops), each with discovery & customization

Travel expenses billed at cost for locations outside major metro areas. Discovery sessions conducted online via Zoom/Teams.

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AI Strategy & Executive Coaching

The pace of agentic AI adoption creates a leadership paradox: you need to move fast, but one wrong bet can waste millions, erode engineering culture, or create unacceptable risk. AI Strategy & Executive Coaching gives senior leaders a trusted sounding board and structured framework for navigating this transformation without the vendor pitch.

This is a strategic engagement for CTOs, CIOs, CDOs, VPs of Engineering, and other senior leaders who need to:

  • Cut through the noise and build a coherent AI strategy that aligns with business outcomes
  • Design organizational structures, team topologies, and hiring plans for the agentic era
  • Establish governance frameworks that balance velocity with risk, compliance, and ethics
  • Lead organizational change without losing the development culture that made your teams great
  • Make build-vs-buy decisions, evaluate platform trade-offs, and negotiate vendor relationships
  • Develop personal leadership capacity for an era of unprecedented technical ambiguity

Every engagement is custom-scoped around your specific context: industry, org size, technical maturity, regulatory environment, and leadership team dynamics.

What You Walk Away With

  • A coherent AI strategy aligned to business outcomes, not vendor roadmaps

  • Frameworks for opportunity assessment, build-vs-buy, and investment sequencing

  • An organizational blueprint: team topologies, new roles, hiring strategy

  • A governance model: decision rights, risk taxonomy, auditability, vendor management

  • A measurement system: maturity assessment, impact metrics, board-level reporting

  • A sounding board for the decisions that are hard to make alone

Engagement Options

Strategy Discovery Day

1-day onsite or 2 × half-day online

A structured deep-dive for leadership teams facing an AI strategy question: opportunity assessment, competitive landscape, capability audit, and a recommended path forward with prioritized actions.

  • AI opportunity assessment: where agentic AI creates real leverage in your business
  • Capability audit: your people, platforms, data, and governance readiness
  • Competitive landscape review: what peers and competitors are doing
  • Roadmap sketch: 6-month and 12-month prioritized action plan
  • Executive summary deck for board or leadership team

Executive Coaching Retainer

Ongoing · Monthly or bi-weekly sessions

Sustained advisory for leaders who want a long-term thinking partner as they navigate the agentic transformation.

  • Monthly 1-on-1 strategy sessions (90 min each)
  • Asynchronous review of strategy documents, org plans, and vendor proposals
  • "Hot topic" briefs on emerging technologies, risks, and market shifts
  • Introductions to practitioner network for specialized needs
  • Optional quarterly half-day offsite with your leadership team

Leadership Team Offsite

2-day facilitated offsite · Up to 12 leaders

A facilitated strategic offsite for your executive leadership team to align on AI vision, principles, and roadmap.

  • Pre-offsite stakeholder interviews and survey
  • 2-day structured facilitation: visioning, constraint mapping, roadmap building
  • Governance principles draft: risk appetite, decision rights, escalation paths
  • Team topology blueprint: new roles, skill gaps, hiring priorities
  • Post-offsite synthesis report with actionable commitments

Fractional AI Leadership

Part-time embedded · 3–12 month engagements

For organizations that need ongoing AI leadership but aren't ready for a full-time Chief AI Officer or VP of AI.

  • Embedded as fractional VP of AI / Head of AI Strategy
  • Weekly leadership team participation and strategy sessions
  • Direct mentoring of senior ICs and managers building AI initiatives
  • Vendor evaluation, platform architecture review, and roadmap governance
  • Board-level reporting and investor communication support

Who It Is For

  • CTO / CIO: owning the technical strategy and needing a trusted peer to pressure-test your AI roadmap
  • VP of Engineering: leading the transition to agentic development practices across multiple teams
  • CDO / Chief Data Officer: building AI-capable data platforms and governance for agentic workloads
  • CEO / COO: evaluating AI's impact on business model, competitive position, and operating model
  • Board Member / Investor: conducting diligence on AI strategy, technical debt, and organizational readiness
  • Head of AI / ML: scaling from experimental projects to organization-wide capability

The Core Modules at a Glance

Twelve modules form the core body of knowledge, selected and combined per engagement.

Group A: AI Strategy & Opportunity: A1 The Agentic AI Landscape for Leaders · A2 Opportunity Assessment & Prioritization · A3 Competitive & Market Intelligence

Group B: Organization & Culture: B1 Organizational Design for the Agentic Era · B2 AI Culture Without Losing Engineering Culture · B3 Leading Through Technical Ambiguity

Group C: Governance, Risk & Platform: C1 AI Governance & Risk Management · C2 Technology Platform Strategy · C3 AI Safety, Ethics & Responsible Innovation

Group D: Execution & Measurement: D1 AI Roadmap & Investment Planning · D2 Measuring AI Maturity & Impact · D3 Vendor & Partner Ecosystem Management

Every engagement starts with a no-obligation discovery deep-dive, and all engagements include a satisfaction guarantee: if the first session does not deliver clear value, there is no charge.

What Sets This Apart

Typical AI Advisory What We Deliver
Vendor-sponsored strategy ("you need more of our product") Independent, vendor-agnostic guidance. We don't resell, partner, or take commissions
Generic playbooks from consultants who've never built Practitioner perspective: we build agentic systems daily and know what works at production scale
Focus on technology selection only Holistic view: strategy, organization, governance, culture, and personal leadership
One-off deck with no follow-through Ongoing relationship: we stay with you through execution, course-correction, and evolution

Delivery Format

Element Detail
Discovery 1–2 hour deep-dive call to scope the engagement and confirm fit
Format Online, onsite, or hybrid depending on engagement type
Duration Single session to multi-month retainer
Cohort 1-on-1 with executive, or up to 12 for team offsites
Prerequisites None beyond a specific challenge or question you want to work through
Deliverables Depends on engagement: strategy brief, roadmap, governance framework, org blueprint, or ongoing advisory

All engagements begin with a no-obligation discovery call to confirm fit and scope. Travel expenses billed at cost for locations outside major metro areas.

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Effective Agentic Development Workshop

This workshop teaches development teams to wield agentic coding assistants like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, pi, and others as first-class development tools. Participants will master the full agentic development lifecycle: context engineering, skills authoring, the agentic dev loop, event-driven backpressure (deterministic tools wired to agent events for imperative self-correction), and production-grade deployment pipelines.

The curriculum is tool-agnostic by design. We teach principles that transfer across any agentic stack while providing hands-on experience with the leading tools of 2026.

What Your Team Walks Away With

  • Engineer context-rich agent environments (AGENTS.md, skills, MCP servers, code graphs)

  • Write BACKPRESSURE.md as the verification contract, with deterministic tools wired to agent events

  • Generate and validate tests at every layer: unit, integration, E2E, visual regression

  • Deploy agent-generated code through staging, blue/green, and canary with automatic rollback

  • Configure the full agentic dev loop: Prompt, Generate, Verify, Iterate, Ship

  • Implement agentic code review, PR automation, and evidence-first review workflows

Who It Is For

  • VP of Engineering / CTO: shipping faster without sacrificing quality or security
  • Principal / Staff Engineers: establishing agentic development standards
  • DevSecOps / Platform Engineering: building CI/CD pipelines for agent-generated code
  • Engineering Managers: rolling out agentic practices across teams

Agenda Highlights

Two onsite days, aligned in discovery to your stack, tools, and backlog.

  • Before the onsite days: two 2-hour online discovery sessions align the curriculum to your stack, tools, and backlog
  • Day 1: the agentic coding landscape, context engineering and memory, skills and tools, and the agentic dev loop
  • Day 2: structural verification gates, testing at every layer, agentic code review and PR automation, and staging and blue/green deployment
  • Optional third day: a guided capstone taking a real feature request from your backlog through the complete workflow
  • Every participant keeps: the starter kit (AGENTS.md template, BACKPRESSURE.md spec, CI/CD blueprints) and 30 days of Slack access

Every engagement is tailored. The full session-by-session plan comes with the syllabus.

Delivery Format

Element Detail
Pre-Workshop Discovery 2 × 2-hour online sessions (scoping, customization, stakeholder alignment)
Format Onsite, instructor-led, hands-on
Duration 2 days (16 hours instruction + 4 hours guided lab)
Cohort Size 12–20 developers
Prerequisites Proficiency in Python/TypeScript; Git fluency; basic CI/CD familiarity
Deliverables Agentic dev environment config, BACKPRESSURE.md spec, agentic CI/CD pipeline
Post-Workshop 30-day Slack access; office hours; tool configuration guides

Packages

Package Includes
Core 2-Day Workshop 2 × 2-hr discovery sessions + prep + customization + 2-day onsite + materials + 30-day support
Core + Capstone Day Above + guided build of production-ready agentic workflow on your stack
Multi-Cohort Bundle 3 workshops within 12 months (mix workshops), each with discovery & customization

Travel expenses billed at cost for locations outside major metro areas. Discovery sessions conducted online via Zoom/Teams.

Get the Full Syllabus

The full syllabus covers every module in detail: session plans, hands-on labs, deliverables, and prerequisites. Enter your work email and we will send it to you.

Databricks Agentic Data Engineering Workshop

This workshop teaches data engineering teams to use agentic coding assistants like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, Cursor, and others to build, maintain, and evolve data pipelines, dashboards, and data applications on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. We teach the full agentic development lifecycle through the lens of data engineering: Unity Catalog context injection, Databricks AI Dev Kit skills, MCP-based tool access, event-driven backpressure (deterministic tools wired to agent events for imperative self-correction), and production-grade deployment patterns.

The curriculum is tool-agnostic by design: agents come and go, but the context-engineering and backpressure patterns are durable.

What Your Team Walks Away With

  • Set up the Databricks AI Dev Kit with MCP-based tool access under Unity Catalog permissions

  • Engineer context for data work: schema-first prompting, lineage-aware generation, data profile injection

  • Run the agentic data loop: requirement, context, generate, verify, deploy, monitor

  • Write BACKPRESSURE.md data contracts: schema, quality, lineage, and compliance rules enforced by deterministic tools

  • Test pipelines at every layer: unit SQL tests, DLT integration tests, E2E golden-data comparison, dashboard visual regression

  • Deploy agent-built pipelines through staging schemas, blue/green data diffs, and canary releases

Who It Is For

  • Data Platform Leads: modernizing data engineering with agent-assisted pipelines
  • VP of Engineering / CTO: shipping faster without sacrificing data quality or governance
  • Principal / Staff Data Engineers: establishing agentic data engineering standards
  • Analytics Engineers: maintaining DLT pipelines, SQL dashboards, and data apps
  • Platform Teams: standardizing how agents access Unity Catalog, jobs, and compute
  • DevSecOps / Platform Engineering: building CI/CD pipelines for agent-generated data systems

Agenda Highlights

Two onsite days, shaped by an audit of your workspace, Unity Catalog setup, and pipelines.

  • Before the onsite days: two 2-hour online discovery sessions audit your workspace, Unity Catalog setup and pipelines, then align the curriculum to your environment
  • Day 1: the Databricks agentic landscape, context engineering for data workloads, the agentic data loop across pipelines, dashboards and apps, and data validation and testing
  • Day 2: end-to-end, visual and performance validation, agentic review and data ops, and staging and blue/green delivery for data
  • Optional third day: a guided capstone taking a real data engineering task from your backlog through the complete workflow
  • Every participant keeps: the starter kit (AI Dev Kit config, BACKPRESSURE.md spec, CI/CD blueprints) and 30 days of Slack access

Every engagement is tailored. The full session-by-session plan comes with the syllabus.

Delivery Format

Element Detail
Pre-Workshop Discovery 2 × 2-hour online sessions (scoping, customization, stakeholder alignment)
Format Onsite, instructor-led, hands-on
Duration 2 days (16 hours instruction + 4 hours guided lab)
Cohort Size 12–20 data engineers
Prerequisites Python + SQL proficiency; active Databricks workspace; Git fluency; basic CI/CD familiarity
Deliverables Databricks agentic dev environment config, BACKPRESSURE.md spec, agentic CI/CD pipeline
Post-Workshop 30-day Slack access; Databricks-specific follow-up; tool configuration guides

Packages

Package Includes
Core 2-Day Workshop 2 × 2-hr discovery sessions + prep + customization + 2-day onsite + materials + 30-day support
Core + Capstone Day Above + guided build of production-ready agentic data workflow on your stack
Multi-Cohort Bundle 3 workshops within 12 months (mix workshops), each with discovery & customization

Travel expenses billed at cost for locations outside major metro areas. Discovery sessions conducted online via Zoom/Teams.

Platform Requirements

Databricks Workspace Unity Catalog enabled; Serverless SQL + Jobs available
AI Dev Kit pip install databricks-ai-dev-kit or equivalent
Agent Tools Claude Code, Copilot, and/or Codex CLI installed locally
Git Repository connected to Databricks Git integration
CI/CD GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps for pipeline exercises
Data Workshop data provided; customer data may be substituted for capstone

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